we have crews throughout the city and one in detroit, covering the oakland as. we want to begin with jamie sire who is at at&t park for the giants who suffered a tough loss. >> reporter: normally when the opposing pitcher leaves after eight pitches, it would bode well for the home team. unfortunately for the giants, they could not capitalize on that early opportunity and they do drop game one against the reds. >> they lost the starter there. you know, they brought in a pretty good one, too. latos is tough and when you're in the first game, just like us, we had starters who could go tonight. and he is available. and he came and did a great job on us. >> obviously we did not expect it. we expected to face both of them so it is not like you know, latos wasn't going to pitch later in the series anyways. >> reporter: despite the loss, this team was encouraged by the way they were able to rally back in the late innings and hoping that that momentum can maybe carry over into sunday's game. the a's meanwhile also dropping their first game of the postseason in detroit an